A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

— P.J. Parker

Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.

— P.J. Parker

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?

— P.J. Parker

For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.

— P.J. Parker

He pushed a finger through the surface of the water to trace the outline of her mouth. Ethereal bits of flesh floated loosely about his knuckle and nail. Then, calmly, he pulled her body up out of the tub and into his arms. He placed his lips on hers, now as cold and dead as his own.

— P.J. Parker

I have created something and let it loose upon the world. Whether it was my right to do so or not, I cannot say. At times, I am filled with love for my creation. At others, I am filled with regret and horror. But it is done. It has been created.

— P.J. Parker

I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.

— P.J. Parker

No words in our ledgers could do justice to this sublime beauty,” Captain Lewis said. “The expedition should have brought a camera obscura.” Peter wasn’t familiar with the words, but no matter. He knew he was part of something magnificent—something greater than himself or the Corps of Discovery. And he knew what it was. It was America. And it was beautiful.

— P.J. Parker

One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her scarred yellow-brown coat was immaculately groomed, but the long tufting hair of her snout was matted with the bright red smear of unconcealed blood from a recent kill. Her upper lip curved over the top of foot-long saber teeth.

— P.J. Parker

Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light’s father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.

— P.J. Parker